Motivational Quotes

Prayer

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Prayer

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.

Kuhn, Isobel

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Brooks, Phillips

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

Wolpe, David J.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

Lawrence, Brother

10.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

11.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

12.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

15.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

16.

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

17.

Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. [Job 5:8-9]

Bible

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Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

23.

Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]

Erasmus, Desiderius

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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Illich, Ivan

25.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list.

Michalski, Stan

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

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Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

31.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Taylor, Jeremy

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We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

Phillips, Harold C.

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Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

34.

My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Gide, Andre

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The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Brault, Robert

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

38.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

39.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

41.

Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

42.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

45.

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca

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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.